|
North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Physical transport media
> At 5:04 PM -0400 9/16/97, Tim Gibson wrote: > >If I may be so bold here Michael, the TTL of steel is significantly > less > >than so many other datagrams, many due to R.educed U.seable S.urface > >T.ransparancy. > > We think that we have the R.U.S.T problem licked by using stainless > steel > BBs and by using a petroleum based liquid transport medium. We need > the > mass of steel in the datagrams to protect against backhoe fade. After > a few > backhoe operators get torn to shreds by a stream of IP packets from > cut > transport pipes, those big yellow machines will show a little more > respect > and watch where they stick their big yellow buckets. > I can see it now... " We have a BS-3 down due to oil change maintenance." ---------------------------------------- Per Engstrom IXC Communications Broadband Services Network Operations (512)427-3836 [email protected]
|